His daughter has actually already been introduced - she's the Republic's counterpart to Shon, and shows up in Sphere of Influence (she mentions Alidar Jarok, the admiral you refer to, as her father, and touches upon the events of the episode if asked).
That gives me a reason to actually run that mission once I get a character up to that point.
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If at some point Cardassians do get brought into the fold, besides Andrew Robinson and Garak, another cool talent might be Casey Biggs (Damar). He was pretty awesome during the end of the Dominion War!
I'm not sure it needs a faction per se but it needs something big. For example, I could see an alternate cross faction leveling path and new professions as an expansion.
The important thing to me is some kind of game defining set of new features that would matter to new players and new characters and content/systems overhaul built around a major theme.
Well, let's look at just how much stuff was in LoR:
-Romulan faction
-a Dozen or so new Romulan ships
-Romulan doffs
-Romulan doff missions
-several new social zones
-several dozen missions for the Romulan Republic storyline
-revamped story missions for KDF
-new adventure zone, Nimbus, that works for all players.
-New enemies, the Elachi, along with unique powers
-and of course a new lock box with new stuff in it.
A fourth playable faction within STO would be most welcome. And the prime candidate is: The Cardassians!
You have a wealth of voice talent to draw from.
STO needs to grow in new directions to remain fresh.
Make it so.
Star Trek: Keeping Up With The Cardasssians
Details how they decide they are recovered enough, kick the Federation to the curb and begin a massive arms race. All the other powers are forced to invent "MK 15 Ultra-Super-Purple" gear in order to compete.
Oh and it will be a grind-map-season. Instead of actually having popup missions you'll just fly around a map and pick up coins.
I would love to see Jeri Ryan make an appearance in game. For any possible Borg storyline it really makes sense to involve 7 of 9. Regarding her age in 2409 i don't see a problem there. With all the Borg tech she probably does not age as average humans do.
I'm sure its already been mentioned but I didn't read through the whole thread...I personally would love to see Riker make an appearance in some way as well as Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien.
[obvious sarcasm]
Cardassians...really?
I guess it would be easier on the Devs.
All they would have to do is copy/paste the Romulan content.
Then they could go that extra mile and copy/paste the Romulan content for a Bajoran faction so we can have the DS9 thing all over again.
Sure, why not.
It makes sense because I haz teh Defiant.
[/obvious sarcasm]
A Dyson Sphere has just been introduced to the game and people want the Cardassians as a playable faction?
Can you people watch the OTHER Star Trek shows, first?
DS9 was good but...really?
The Borg makes sense.
The Undine makes sense.
The Voth makes sense.
The Tholians makes sense.
The Breen makes sense.
The Iconians (or subservient race thereof) makes sense.
The Cardassians, in the words of the great Jedi Master Yoda:
Sense, it makes not.
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[obvious sarcasm]
Cardassians...really?
I guess it would be easier on the Devs.
All they would have to do is copy/paste the Romulan content.
Then they could go that extra mile and copy/paste the Romulan content for a Bajoran faction so we can have the DS9 thing all over again.
Sure, why not.
It makes sense because I haz teh Defiant.
[/obvious sarcasm]
A Dyson Sphere has just been introduced to the game and people want the Cardassians as a playable faction?
Can you people watch the OTHER Star Trek shows, first?
DS9 was good but...really?
The Borg makes sense.
The Undine makes sense.
The Voth makes sense.
The Tholians makes sense.
The Breen makes sense.
The Iconians (or subservient race thereof) makes sense.
The Cardassians, in the words of the great Jedi Master Yoda:
This is of course your opinion, and I don't agree with it, I would welcome playing as a Cardassian.
Are you doing that on purpose?
Playable Borg as a faction are as close to ultimate disaster as this game could possibly get.
So, you are saying that playing as Borg is a disaster? I don't agree with that, if done right, it could work very well. Then again, playing as normal Borg would be impossible (they're "villainous" in the story, and therefore won't make sense doing it). There is really one way to do this where everyone can benefit: Unimatrix 0, or something similar to it.
What celebrity voices would I like to see join the ranks of our beloved stars who have already contributed their time and voices? - ALL OF THEM! Bashir, Ezri, Major Kira, Sisko, Kirk, Sulu, Picard, Riker, Archer, Trip, T'pol, B'Elanna, Geordi, Troi, Beverly Crusher and Wesley, Data, Phlaax, etc, etc, etc,- any and all of them would be greatly thanked by the STO players like me. I say this with the hopes that PWE doesn't raise zen store prices, but, This is the greatest game out there, and it is no surprise that it will win game of the year, again, like it always has.
I thank you for bringing the celebrities to this game in the past, and I have high hopes for the future, as my favorite actors might reprise their roles for us, here. Thank you for blowing our minds with the new content! You have brilliant writers. Here is wishing you at Cryptic the best Holiday season, and a Joyous New Year! You make us Trekkies, Treksters, Trekists, and Trekkers very happy!
Yeah, pity there werent some more Wayoun clones stashed away somewhere (or were there???)... I'd love to hear some Jeffrey Combs in STO (he kills it in TSW!)
But... what happened with General Martok? I'm sure you could talk J G Hertzler into doing a reprisal 8) Or Andrew Robinson, or...
Yes!!! Combs was a great character he played Weyoun so well, I think they were going for that in The DS9 FEs with whats his name, see he was that memorable. Replace him with Weyoun and get the Founders voice its different in the last 2 episodes.
So, you are saying that playing as Borg is a disaster?
Absolutely.
I don't agree with that, if done right, it could work very well. Then again, playing as normal Borg would be impossible (they're "villainous" in the story, and therefore won't make sense doing it). There is really one way to do this where everyone can benefit: Unimatrix 0, or something similar to it.
If you are asking why that is my opinion, the answer is right there in your post.
I like my Borg to be scary, collective cyber zombies from space.
I don't want to relate to them. I don't want to play as them. I want them as mysterious as they can get, and as dangerous as they can get.
The Borg Queen was the first wrong step on a long road of making the Borg less appealing to me.
While I can live with the Queen, Voyager really overdid it with the Borg.
It made them only a few hundred years old (as opposed to TNG, in which Guinan stated they are much older).
We have Unimatrix Zero and a rebellion against the Collective (talking about butchering the anti-indiviualistic nature of the Borg) and finally, Voyager went out to one-shot Borg Cubes with weapons 30 years from the Federation future.
STO should be working on reversing some of the bad decisions made regarding the Borg, not enforcing them by making some nice Hugh-Unimatrix-Zero-Borg a playable faction.
Not to mention the frickin' Borg ships in orbit of the Earth, Quo'Nos and Mol'Rihan.
There is not a single realistic idea I can think of that be worse (imho) then adding a Borg faction.
You just can't do them justice. The only thing you can do is to create a half assed Unimatrix Zero faction.
And those wouldn't even be true Borg. Being Borg is all about being a hive mind. It's the entire concept behind them.
Yeah, pity there werent some more Wayoun clones stashed away somewhere (or were there???)... I'd love to hear some Jeffrey Combs in STO (he kills it in TSW!)
But... what happened with General Martok? I'm sure you could talk J G Hertzler into doing a reprisal 8) Or Andrew Robinson, or...
Martok just got elected to city office last month or two somewhere back east I think. Look it up.
well that would be stupid. It would be annoying and highly insulting to do that kind of thing, mixing up events and TRIBBLE things up with character interaction from different episodes....just, no. It would smell too much like Abrams garbage.
But having the ENT characters in a FLASH-BACK during an episode, yes. Kind of like in Assassin's Creed. You have flash-backs, but you can still play limited things within those flashbacks.
I don't see why that would be stupid since we already do time travel stuff with other famous characters in the game. We go back in time and save Scotty and Bones from being eaten by Dividians after all. With the whole temporal cold war thing going on in ENT, having a time travel episode is right up Archer's (and the ENT crew's) alley.
I look forward into making a Vorta Female as part of the (hopes and prays) Dominion/Cardaissian faction named Yaya Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! in this upcoming year.
This would be unnecessary. As mentioned in other posts, Data is already alive. In fact, he is alive again in at least three different continuities:
Data is alive and Captain of the Enterprise-E in in the Abramsverse thanks to a prequel comic book to the 2009 Star Trek film.
Data is alive in a brand new state-of-the-art non-green body thanks to his "father" in the Star Trek: Cold Equations novels.
Data is alive in the 2409 Star Trek Online universe thanks to a short story (co-starring Capt. Va'kel Shon) that appeared in Star Trek magazine.
Maybe someday Cryptic will reprint all of those Star Trek Magazine-exclusive stories into another novel.
The Countdown comic isn't a separate universe is it? I know it ties into the Abramsverse, but STO acknowledges that comic and makes direct reference to it on a number of occasions. It seems like it should be a part of this game as much as it is the films.
I'm having some difficulties with this Dyson Sphere thing. Either I'm missing some of the science behind this or this presentation wasn't really well thought out and would take a great deal to try to make it have any scientific sense.
A Dyson Sphere would have to be massive in order for it to work. So much so that the sphere would be so large as to be a great distance from the star it encircled from any given point so as to make it functional without harm to the sphere, to say nothing of the inhabitants. On that same note the amount of materials to build it would be more than we could find in our solar system.
Ok, throwing those limitations aside, how do you get a Dyson Sphere with an external atmosphere? It would have to be rotating in order to generate a gravitational pull. Since the point of a Dyson Sphere was to live on the inside surface this seems to be a bit much for never having found a way inside.
A side note also worth mentioning. In the original Dyson Sphere episode the star it was built around was about to go super nova thus making the inside uninhabitable well before the super nova event occurs. It seems little to nothing of investigating the internals of the sphere has been offered.
Finally, even with the Omega particle protocol, it seems extremely odd that we find ourselves thrust into a war without ever having communication with the alleged enemy and at the same time find those Voth who want to cooperate on the science level, as well as Voth duty officers, do not reflect anything of what we're fighting for nor against. In other words, where is all the missing material that connected the dots? Where is any attempt made between Star Fleet Command or my Captain, Vice Admiral John Campbell of the U.S.S. Crusader/ U.S.S. Vengeance, to establish first contact with the Voth? What happened to the prime directive?
It's claimed we are stretched so thin that the numerous conflicts could snap our lines and capability. The Federation is in danger. At this point we're fighting the Tal Shiar, the Borg, for some we're still fighting the Klingon Empire, and we're stretched out trying to assist the Romulans on New Romulus, but we somehow have enough people and logistics to take on the Voth without even a reason why? Because a developer said "go shoot this"?
Even in the real world we don't just arbitrarily go blow up a people because their government has a nuclear weapon or the capability to build one. Iran comes to mind. No, I understand the debate and the consequences argument surrounding Iran, but that's not my point. The point is how we really do act in regard to the lives of others. This war with the Voth makes no sense and the Dyson Sphere has too many variables that were left unaccounted for to make this story line. I'm happy to fight the battles, but give me something worth fighting for. Killing anyone on sight for the sake of an Omega Particle just isn't getting it.
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That gives me a reason to actually run that mission once I get a character up to that point.
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(Temporal episode)
-Romulan faction
-a Dozen or so new Romulan ships
-Romulan doffs
-Romulan doff missions
-several new social zones
-several dozen missions for the Romulan Republic storyline
-revamped story missions for KDF
-new adventure zone, Nimbus, that works for all players.
-New enemies, the Elachi, along with unique powers
-and of course a new lock box with new stuff in it.
That's several seasons worth of stuff. Or Silik!
My character Tsin'xing
(Gets borg cube)
Time to destroy ley enterprise:3
You have a wealth of voice talent to draw from.
STO needs to grow in new directions to remain fresh.
Make it so.
Star Trek: Keeping Up With The Cardasssians
Details how they decide they are recovered enough, kick the Federation to the curb and begin a massive arms race. All the other powers are forced to invent "MK 15 Ultra-Super-Purple" gear in order to compete.
Oh and it will be a grind-map-season. Instead of actually having popup missions you'll just fly around a map and pick up coins.
<Shatner voice> NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </Shatner voice>
So.......
MAKE IT SO!
People are broken. - Lum the Mad
Senior Retention and Recruitment Officer
Command Division, Lotus Fleet
Cardassians...really?
I guess it would be easier on the Devs.
All they would have to do is copy/paste the Romulan content.
Then they could go that extra mile and copy/paste the Romulan content for a Bajoran faction so we can have the DS9 thing all over again.
Sure, why not.
It makes sense because I haz teh Defiant.
[/obvious sarcasm]
A Dyson Sphere has just been introduced to the game and people want the Cardassians as a playable faction?
Can you people watch the OTHER Star Trek shows, first?
DS9 was good but...really?
The Borg makes sense.
The Undine makes sense.
The Voth makes sense.
The Tholians makes sense.
The Breen makes sense.
The Iconians (or subservient race thereof) makes sense.
The Cardassians, in the words of the great Jedi Master Yoda:
RIP KDF and PvP 2014-07-17 Season 9.5 - Death by Dev
Are you doing that on purpose?
Playable Borg as a faction are as close to ultimate disaster as this game could possibly get.
Agreed. This +10
So, you are saying that playing as Borg is a disaster? I don't agree with that, if done right, it could work very well. Then again, playing as normal Borg would be impossible (they're "villainous" in the story, and therefore won't make sense doing it). There is really one way to do this where everyone can benefit: Unimatrix 0, or something similar to it.
I thank you for bringing the celebrities to this game in the past, and I have high hopes for the future, as my favorite actors might reprise their roles for us, here. Thank you for blowing our minds with the new content! You have brilliant writers. Here is wishing you at Cryptic the best Holiday season, and a Joyous New Year! You make us Trekkies, Treksters, Trekists, and Trekkers very happy!
Yes!!! Combs was a great character he played Weyoun so well, I think they were going for that in The DS9 FEs with whats his name, see he was that memorable. Replace him with Weyoun and get the Founders voice its different in the last 2 episodes.
Absolutely.
If you are asking why that is my opinion, the answer is right there in your post.
I like my Borg to be scary, collective cyber zombies from space.
I don't want to relate to them. I don't want to play as them. I want them as mysterious as they can get, and as dangerous as they can get.
The Borg Queen was the first wrong step on a long road of making the Borg less appealing to me.
While I can live with the Queen, Voyager really overdid it with the Borg.
It made them only a few hundred years old (as opposed to TNG, in which Guinan stated they are much older).
We have Unimatrix Zero and a rebellion against the Collective (talking about butchering the anti-indiviualistic nature of the Borg) and finally, Voyager went out to one-shot Borg Cubes with weapons 30 years from the Federation future.
STO should be working on reversing some of the bad decisions made regarding the Borg, not enforcing them by making some nice Hugh-Unimatrix-Zero-Borg a playable faction.
Not to mention the frickin' Borg ships in orbit of the Earth, Quo'Nos and Mol'Rihan.
There is not a single realistic idea I can think of that be worse (imho) then adding a Borg faction.
You just can't do them justice. The only thing you can do is to create a half assed Unimatrix Zero faction.
And those wouldn't even be true Borg. Being Borg is all about being a hive mind. It's the entire concept behind them.
Martok just got elected to city office last month or two somewhere back east I think. Look it up.
I don't see why that would be stupid since we already do time travel stuff with other famous characters in the game. We go back in time and save Scotty and Bones from being eaten by Dividians after all. With the whole temporal cold war thing going on in ENT, having a time travel episode is right up Archer's (and the ENT crew's) alley.
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Well that sounds rather anti-climatic. Still, it doesn't explain what happened between the distress call and now.
The Countdown comic isn't a separate universe is it? I know it ties into the Abramsverse, but STO acknowledges that comic and makes direct reference to it on a number of occasions. It seems like it should be a part of this game as much as it is the films.
When was this ever covered in game?
A Dyson Sphere would have to be massive in order for it to work. So much so that the sphere would be so large as to be a great distance from the star it encircled from any given point so as to make it functional without harm to the sphere, to say nothing of the inhabitants. On that same note the amount of materials to build it would be more than we could find in our solar system.
Ok, throwing those limitations aside, how do you get a Dyson Sphere with an external atmosphere? It would have to be rotating in order to generate a gravitational pull. Since the point of a Dyson Sphere was to live on the inside surface this seems to be a bit much for never having found a way inside.
A side note also worth mentioning. In the original Dyson Sphere episode the star it was built around was about to go super nova thus making the inside uninhabitable well before the super nova event occurs. It seems little to nothing of investigating the internals of the sphere has been offered.
Finally, even with the Omega particle protocol, it seems extremely odd that we find ourselves thrust into a war without ever having communication with the alleged enemy and at the same time find those Voth who want to cooperate on the science level, as well as Voth duty officers, do not reflect anything of what we're fighting for nor against. In other words, where is all the missing material that connected the dots? Where is any attempt made between Star Fleet Command or my Captain, Vice Admiral John Campbell of the U.S.S. Crusader/ U.S.S. Vengeance, to establish first contact with the Voth? What happened to the prime directive?
It's claimed we are stretched so thin that the numerous conflicts could snap our lines and capability. The Federation is in danger. At this point we're fighting the Tal Shiar, the Borg, for some we're still fighting the Klingon Empire, and we're stretched out trying to assist the Romulans on New Romulus, but we somehow have enough people and logistics to take on the Voth without even a reason why? Because a developer said "go shoot this"?
Even in the real world we don't just arbitrarily go blow up a people because their government has a nuclear weapon or the capability to build one. Iran comes to mind. No, I understand the debate and the consequences argument surrounding Iran, but that's not my point. The point is how we really do act in regard to the lives of others. This war with the Voth makes no sense and the Dyson Sphere has too many variables that were left unaccounted for to make this story line. I'm happy to fight the battles, but give me something worth fighting for. Killing anyone on sight for the sake of an Omega Particle just isn't getting it.
...who said we can't be scary, Collective cyber zombies from space?
Never say never
RIP KDF and PvP 2014-07-17 Season 9.5 - Death by Dev
Cryptic said they won't make an evil playable factions.
That's why our Rommies are more good rebels and less manipulating TRIBBLE.